Campus Software Engineer (Intern)

Requirements:

• Experience with C++ programming on Linux
• Experience with command line on Linux
• Experience with Git/version control
• Experience with Python programming on Linux
• Strong understanding of data structures and threading models
• Ability to work with a team in a fast-paced environment, deploying new software daily
• Passion for solving complex problems using both novel and state of the art commercial solutions
• Interest in using knowledge from several areas such as hardware, networking, operating systems to produce extremely high-performance software
• Reliable and predictable availability

Nice to haves:

• Past internship or job experience in a software development role is a plus
• Advanced coursework in algorithms, network programming, operating systems, compilers
• Experience in Rust
• Claude Code in a real work environment
• Experience with any of the following: gRPC, kafka, redpanda, eBPF, dpdk, Clickhouse, FastAPI, Kubernetes, Pandas, SQL, MySQL, DuckDB or the Arrow ecosystem

What you'll be doing:

• Our software engineering internship is an intensive 10-week experience within our core development team that designs, codes, tests, and maintains our distributed trading system.
• You will learn the fundamentals of a large-scale, high-performance infrastructure; sharpen your C++/Python programming skills; and see what it’s like to work as a full-time software engineer at Jump.
• Throughout your internship you will take on projects targeted for production, which go through our full-cycle process for development, testing, and release using Agile methodologies. May include other duties as assigned or needed.
• You will be working side by side with our experienced software engineers where you will receive continuous feedback and coaching from a dedicated mentor throughout the summer.
• Our internship program is the primary way we identify top young software engineers for our core development team, and it’s a proven path for earning full-time opportunities at Jump.

Perks and benefits:

• INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS are encouraged to apply.